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3 iy WEATHER. Falr tonight and tomorrow; not fmuch change in temperature. Temperature for twenty-four hours ended at 2 p.m. today: Highest, 52, at 2 pm. today; lowest, 28, at 2 am. today. Full report on page 22. Closing New York Stocks, Page 27, he Foening ¢ Member of the Assoclated Press | The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to 1 the use for republication of all Sews dispatches | { Daper and also the local news pablishod Berels. | ecredited to 1t or not otherwise tredited In this | | All rights of publication of special dispatches bereln are aiso resetved. { i Star. Saturday’s Net Circulation, 92,572 5 Sunday's Net Circulation, 92,639 . No.~ 28,064 Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1921 —THIRTY-TWO PAGES. TWO CENTS. CAR LINES' MERGER WITH POWER GAINS BY SENATE REPORT Local Electric Roads Would All, Be Included Under Committee’s Proposal. LEGISLATION GETS WIDER SCOPE BY AMENDMENT Provisions of Senator France's Bill Combined With First Section of House Measure. A merger of the street car com- Panies of the District of Columb and the Potomac Electric Power Com- pany is authorized in a bill reported to the Senate favorably today by the Senate District committee. The bill was introduced by Senator France of Maryland, and in its original form provided only for the Mmerger ‘of the Washington Railway and Electric Company and the Potomac Electric Power Company. the -former owning all the stock of the latter. The Senate committee, how- ever, amended the bill by adding the = Liquor Seized Here ‘Rank Poison,’ Says Federal Inspector BALTIMORE, February 28.— Thomas E. Stone, supervising federal prohibition enforcement agent for Maryland, Pennsyl- District of Columbina, Vir- zinia and part of Ohio, who as- sinted in a wholesale raid of the hotels in Washington last week, xaid today that he marvels at the chances people take in pay- ing their xood money for boot- lex bottled goods. “Ninety-five per cemt of the stuff that was neized im the Washington hotel drive was rank poixon, and yet it sold for $15 to $25 uart,” he naid. “Fake labels and bottled in bond pasters were on all the bottles. It required an expert to estab- lish their fraudulent character. “To the purchaser with & | thirst there was no means of | detetmining the true nature of | | | the stuff, which had every ap- | pearance of genuine whisky. | { It n wonder to me that those | who drank it are not dead. l i GRAYSON ASSIGNED NAVY DISPENSARY To Command Station Here After Sixteen Years at White House. Rear Admiral first section of the so-called Woods | bill, introduced in the House, which -authorizes a merger of the Capital Traction Company. the Washington Railway and Electric Company, th sGeorgetown and Tennaleytown Rail ‘way Company, the Washington Inte :urban Railway Company and the City “and Suburban railway of Washington. The Senate committee added to this list .the Washington and Rockville Railway Company of Monigomery county. . = Greatest Step Yet Taken. The step taken by the Senate com- imittee today is regarded at the Capitol as the greatest step yet taken toward a merger of all the street railways and the power company. ‘While members of the committee ad- mitted that in view of the fact that Congress adjourns March 4. it may not be possible to obtain final action on this bill, they express the belief that the favorable report was a move in the right direction. 3 Jf possible, the bill will be put through before adjournment, they said. 1f not, the new Congress, which will meet in extra session this spring, will Pave the benefit of the report and hesn.flnxu on tll:e :n!l!lln. nators Ball of Delaware, Pomerene of Ohio and Capper of Kansas, at the commfittee meeflns teday, all express- ed themselves as desirous of bringing about a i.elrn;' &; the street raflway ~companies shi; as a means \':"r'e.o,"" street railway problem e ‘The France bil roviding for a mergeriet hE WisRington. Ra)iwas Company and the Potomac Electric Power Company, has been put forward as necessary step to bring about a merger of the street car companies. The senators today, howevef, were unwilling to report the France bill without inserting the authorisation for a merger of the Capitzl Traction Company and the Washington Railway and Electric Company and its subsidiary com- panies also. W. R. E. Attitude. B. H. Warner, jr.. representing the Cary President Wilson's private physician, was ordered today by the Navy De- Admiral Grayson has never been of- ficially assigned to duty at the White House, it was said at the Navy De- partment today. although he has acted | as medical aid to Presidents for more than sixteen years, serving in suc- cession under Presidents Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson. His official detail has always been at the naval dis- pensary bere, it was said, and today's | order placed him in command at that istation. He relieves Captain J. B. | Dennis, who has_been transferred to the hospital at Great Lakes, Illinois Harding May Retain Him. ‘As commander-in-chief of the Army and Navy President Harding may or- der any Army or Naval medical officer to duty at the White House. Should he select Admiral Grayson, it was said {at the Navy Department, the admiral would perform his White House du- ties in addition to those at the naval dispensary. During President Roosevelt's ad- ministration Admiral Grayson organ- ized the ninety-mile ride taken by the President and accompanied Mr. Roosevelt on that trip. It was a fore- runner of the order requiring all of- ficers on desk duty in the Army or Navy to make annual trip a foot or a- horse to prove their physical fitness. The ride taken by President Roose- velt was into Virginia, passing through Culpepper, Admiral Gray- son’s home town. VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT WILL ARRIVE TONIGHT ‘Washington Railway and Elect Coo Leat Company amd the Potomac Blectris | With Mrs. Coolidge, ves North- Power Company, who met with the committee -teday, said that the com- Panies he represented had no objec- tion whatever to an ultimate merger of the street car companies. He expressed a fear that an amend- ment of the France bill. which has been regorted as the ';l«;;n-. might cause th ail. ampton Amid Byonmms Dem- onstration of Cordiality. NORTHAMPTON, Mass., February 28.—Calvin Coolidge, - Vice President- d bill to the | elect, set out for Washington with Mrs. legislation to | Coolidge today, with the idea of becom- Ing fairly well settled in his new sur- Senator Ball and Senator P declared that they saw no reason whe | roundings and ready to go to work after members of the House. sympathizing | his oath of office is taken on inauguration, with the plan for a merger of the|day. The Coolidges went away with the street raflway companies. should ob- Jeet to the amendment. When Col. Kutz. District Commi sioner, and chairman of the Publi¢ Utilities Commission, appeared before the Senate committee a week ago, he urged that If the committee ‘should eport. the France bill, it should amend it by authorizing a merger of the street_car companies. ‘R. R. WAGE CUT GRANTED. Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Secures Court Order. ATLANTA., February 28.— Federal Judge S. L. Sibley signed an order today authorizing a reduction of wages of em ployes of the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic railroad, effective March 1. ‘The order directed the receiver, B. L. Bugg, to put into effect the schedule of reductions which Mr. Bugg, as president of the road, had contended for before the railroad labor board. It amounts to ap- proximately 50 per cent of all increases granted the employes of the road since the government assumed control of the ! property in 1817. Godspeed of hundreds of their. fellow citizens, who were at the station to see them off. The demonstration, including cheefs and handclasps in a drizzle of rain, was spontaneous. The democratic nature |of the send-off was shown when the | former governor gathered to him in an embrace James Lucy, a shoemaker, whom he described as his philosopher friend. The next Vice President and the shoemaker were photographed together. The two young sons of the Cool- | idges, John “and Calvin, jr., remained here because of school sessions, but plan to attend the inauguration in {Washington with their grandfather, Col. John Coolidge of Plymouth, {Vt. The Northampton city govern- ment has delegated its democratic mayor to go to Washington as its |official representative at the inaugu- ration. | The Vice President-elect and Mrs. | Coolidge will arrive in Washington from ~ Massachusetts tonight on the | Colonial express. They will go direct to the New Willard hotel, where they are to make their home during the coming session of the new Congress. Harding’s Aim Service To People, Unusually Free From Alliances Epecial Dispateh to The Star. EN ROUTE TO MARION WITH MR- HARDING, February 28.—His play- time behind him, Warren Harding is at last on the way to the serious re- ‘sponsibilities that await him in Wash- ington. During the last week these prospective responsibilities have weighed more and more heavily upon nim. Always heretofore there has been ple of the United States have become accustomed to masterful men in the White House. men who are inclined to lead rather than to follow. It will be !interesting to watch the progress of an administration guided by entirely dif- ferent principles. Mr. Harding has no will to impose. nor has he any strong prejudices to satisfy. If the people want a servant rather than a master. the ad. ministration of Warren G. Harding will be a brilliant success. Just how far a man can go in sounding public opinion | rather than expressing it remains to ne seen. | the signals. an appreciable space of time ahead of | Many persons contend that the 42 BODIES TAKEN FROM DEBRIS 0F WRECKED TRAINS: Missed Block Signals Be- lieved Responsible for Deadly Indiana Crash. ENGINEER WHO ESCAPED DEATH SOUGHT BY POLICE Most of Passengers in Combination Coach Killed When Train Hits It Going Sixty Miles an Hour. By the Associated Press. PORTER, Ind., February 28.—Forty- two bodies had been collected early this forenoon from the wreck last night when the Canadian and the Interstate Limited on the Michigan Central and the New York Central lines, respectively, crashed at a cross- ing. It was a diamond-shaped crossing, permitting the New York Central train, which struck as the other sprawled, derailed, across he intersec- tion, to rake two Michigan Central cars instead of cutting them at right angles. The train had missed block signals said to be set against it and had been derailed by Michigan Central T. Grayson.|a derail that officials said was auto- matically set against it along with It plunged ahead on the ties until it came to rest across the partment to duty as officer in charge|New York Central right of way, with of the Naval Dispensary in this city. |two day coaches at the point of inter- section: Locomotive Is Stripped. At nearly sixty miles an hour the New York Central train came on, the glare of its headlight warning many ot the doomed passengers, who leaped from their seats. One or two reached the doors, but not ome escaped the crash. The New York Central mogul loco- motive was stripped as it hit, wreck- age flying up above the telegraph wires, with a cloud of dust. Bodies of several passengers were carried with the locomotive and buried beneath it. All the dead were in the two Michi- gan Central coaches, which carried few through passengers. Upward of fifty persons bound for Quebec. | Montreal, and Toronto were aboard the eastbound Canadian. Their cars were not much damaged. The New York Central train was bound for Chicago. By 9 o'clock this morning one track of the New York Central was cleared of wreckage, but the Michigan Cen- tral was still blocked. The New York Central tsain strueck the Michigan Central day coaches at such a sharp angle, approxjmately forty-five de- grees, that the ' breadth of two coaches was embraced in its path. Thendwen'fl\’um almost from end to_end. : Railroad officials weré at a loss to explain the phepomenon of the decapitation of so many of the vic- tifns. Half the dead apparently were instantly killed. Death List of Wreck. The death list of last night’s rail- road wreck NWere was today fixed b; H.. O. S8eipel, coromer of Ports county, at forty-two. The morgue at Chesterton contained thirty-six bodies, some of them only frag- mentary, four were still at the scene of the wreck fifteen hours after the accident, and two were at a hospital in Michigan City. Only sixteen had been positively identified by relatives or friends, as follows: At Chesterton morgue: Howard Arney, an employe of Walker & Weeks, engineers of land. Mrs. Emma Bevier, Augusta, Mich. Mrs. Florence See, 622 Franklin street, Michigan City, Ind. Pearl May Cavanaugh, eight years old. adopted daughter of Mrs. See. Mrs. Lillian Baehr. wife of G. R. Baehr, Michigan City, Ind. Arthur E. Eckman, two years old, nephew of Mrs. Baehr. Justin Collins, thirty-six, Black- friar street, London, Ont. Gordon Campbell, Revelstoke, B. student at Coyne Trade and Engi- neering_School, Chicago. Carl Deland, fireman of New York Central train, of Elkhdrt, Ind. W. G. Engler, traveling on pass from Chicago to Detroit. £ Claude Johnson of Elkhart, Ind., engineer of the New York Central train. .Mrs. Frederick Schwier and three- year-old som, Michigan City, Ind. Peter Cain, 2238 Toronto street, Regina, S8ask. Mrs. Barnhart Kramer, aged sixty, wife of wealthy wholesale grocer of Michigan City, Ind. At Michigan City Hospital: E. M. Giddings, identified from watch, had railroad ticket from Kirby, Wyo., to Augusta, Mich. & Twenty-Three Still Unidentified. Unidentifled dead were ‘Woman at Michigan supposed to be wife of E. M. Giddings. Four bodies at wreck. Twenty-three bodies at Chesterton morgue. _ Partial identifications, which the coroner refused to accept as positive, and other information from train records and persons on the train, gave the following list of missing: Miss June Campbell, stenographer to the Michigan Central division superintendent at Jackson, Mich. T. J. Campbell, eighteen, address un- known, but supposed to be brother of Miss Campbell. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Mueller, Michigan city, Ind. McCray and wife, Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Van Riper, Michi- gan City, Ind. Wooler. Detroit, Mich. Mrs. Justin Collins, London, Ont. (her husband was listed among the positive identifications). Frank Doyle, Michigan City, Ind. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Goldstein, Detroit. Fred Leggett, Niles, Mich. Mrs. George Baker, Michigan City, Ind. L. W. Keeler, former superintendent y Hospital, | the President-elect, but when his train pulled out of St. Augustine with the setting sun of Sunday evening h reulized that his hour of personal ac countability tu the people of United States was about to strike. No man ever has approached the presidency with a keener desire wive which will meet with their approval. Mr. Harding has little or none of the «o about him. He has no fixed pur- pose to do what Warren Harding would like done. the wishes of the people and see in what manner he can serve them best. Greatest Desire to Please People. With all due respect to Presidents who bave gone before. it can be said that none has come within the shadow of the White House with a more un- melfish point of view than Mr. Hard- sng possessen. He does not feel that 1. pnnldoncz‘ belongs to him. He dedlares the office belongs to the peo- the to! the people an administration ! of schools at Michigan City, Ind. A. Matthews, Muscoda, Wis. ‘The seriously Injured included the following: Abraham Rosenthal, twenty-six, Chi- cago High School teacher, at Michigan City, fradtured skull; probably will re- cover. Carl McBeth, thirty, Detroit, badly bruised und_shocked: will recove greater the democracy. the greater need of a leader, even a willfy] |eaderl.h° Executive Duties New to Him. i Mr. Harding feels that he S listen and should take " no’ paiey decision. It is_in this spirit that o approaches the White House. Mane i teresting experiences await him there, i He wants to sound ! Sxecutive responsibility is entirely fop. eign to him. He has had the mu'wu:o responsibility of the state legislatupe nd the Senate of the United States, but ow he faces the task of individual de- cision. Mr. Hdrding has had a foretaste of hat awaits him in the making of his cabinet. He has listened much as to ! whom he should appoint to this or that position. but in the end mainly, he has made his choices. Of course, the Presi- dent-elect has not been entirely a free agent in this respect, neither was Wood- row Wilson, nor William Howard Tatt, nor Theodore Roosevelt. All of thess Presidents owed certain obligations ple and if he can sound their desires and comply with them he will be a ‘very happy man. ATIng the last twenty years the peo- which they were bound to respect. So did Mr. Harding, but Mr. Harding per- Eugene Collison, ‘twenty, Danville, 111.. shocked and bruised; will recover. Pan Belonga, address unknown, con- diglon_ serious. C. A. Bevier, Augusta, Mich., condl- tion serious; wife killed. Many of Dead Decapitated. All except the two baggage and malil cars of the New York Central train remained upright, although bits of the wooden coaches of the Mich- igan Central train were scattered for fitty yards. Passengers in the four coaches of the Michigan Central traing behind the death cars were unhurt, except for the shake-up, and all of the passengers on the New York Central escaped, climbing down (Continued on Sixteenth Page.) " &«Continued on Thirteenth Page.) | | i REPUBLIANS KEEN TO BEGIN TASKS {Harding’s “Hands-0ff” Pol- icy Gives Cabinet Heads Rare Opportunities. BY N. 0. MESSENGER. | Consideration in anl their dire de- tails of the woesome problems | Prophesied as awaiting the new ad- { ministration might almost suggest to | the incoming President and his pros- ipeb&lve cabinet regret that the repub- licans won the election to shoulder all i these troubles; that they ought to be sorry they were born. Strangely | enough, however, they appear to be showing alacrity, not to say down- right cheerfulness, in rushing to meet their fate. i ,The problems divide into three classes, and the load will be dis- tributed in its handling. They will be administrative, legislative and in- ternational. It is manifest that Presi- i dent-elect Harding has already sound- ed out his contemplated cabinet se- lections on departmental affairs, that he has posted them on what he ex- pects them to do at the outset, and that for the time being he intends to divest himself of thought and respon- sibility and hold the heads of depart- ments responsible for results. “Hands-Off” Poliey Adopted. This will leave him free to devote his attention to the broader executive | duties of his office and enable him to give attention to the first most ex- igent business of it, the building up of a new organization in the higher appointive offices through the dis- | pensation of patronage. Reports from | stationary as they have been from time to time, have consistently agreed that the President-elect has adopted a policy of “hands off” by the execu~ tive to the greatest possible degree with the administrative functions. of | his cabinet stafr. | It is noted that the cabinet alloca- | tions have been made with a view to | placing_the more important depart- {ments in the hands of men who are | not only interested in the work, but {who have lately given thought and | study to it. John W. Weeks, prospec- | tive Secretary of War, who has been in Washington all winter, is thor- { oughly posted on the questions which { will come before him in an adminis- { trative capacity, and as soon as he | takes office will lay out a systematic business man's campaign for effective dispatch of business. Weeks Plans Big Shake- { One big shake-up he is expected to |institute is over the status of war supplies left over. This will not be, |it is said, with the idea of disclosing | possible irregularities, but to bring |some kind of order out of a state of | chaos which is alleged to be causing |great loss to the government. Mr. Weeks is_essentially a business man, and the War Department great business institution. The prospective Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Denby, will be 8o familiar | with ‘the broader aspects of adminis- | tration of the department that he will need little tutoring when he figura- |tively mounts the quarter deck and | hoists his flag on his new command. |His heart and soul will be in the |Work, his friends say, and.the Presi- |dent ‘can well “leave to Denby” for |the present all worrying details of |that department’s administration. Prospective Secretary of State Hughes, according to Mr. Harding’s declaration, is to have free hand in his own department, although, of course, this is not taken to mean that Secretary Hughes will be expected to | formulate important first-chop intere national policies without consultation With the President and with republi- can senators. Fletcher to Handle Mexico. The Mexican question will probably ! be left to Undersecretary Fletcher for initial_handling and framing up, on (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) is now a From Pres The Star during its enormous edition o | time. paper with all the promptly hereafter. I The S ar is no fice promptly, PACKING yP 1S SO HARD WHEN ONE N DOESNTKNOW o2 ’3 SASSTAY S \ ¢ NS |CHAMP CLARK IS BETTER. President Wilson Sends Ex-Speaker Roses and Greetings. Champ Clark, who leaves the House Friday, after twenty-six years of serv- ice, had a sharp turn for the better last night and today is resting com- fortably. breathing easier. His fever has gone and he is sleeping well. This was the report given out by his office today after the doctor's visit. Mr. Clark is suffering from a series of complications resulting from an attack of pleurisy. He showed a de- cided improvement Saturday, but a turn for the worse developed during the night. His physician, Dr. Jesse Shoup, yesterday calleq Dr. Lewellys F. Barker of ~Baltimore and Dr. Thomas A. Claytor of Washington into consultation. A bulletin issued last night by the three physicians said: “Mr. Clark is seriously ill. He has had an acute infection. He now has fluid in the right plural cavity, an irregular heart, increased frequency of respiration and glucosuria Presi@ent Wilson today sent a large box of roses to the sick room of for- mer Speaker Champ Clark and accomi- panying it was 4 note expressing his hope for Mr. Clark's speedy recovery. CONGRESS AROUSED TONEEDOF GUNBAN Representative Hill Gets As- surances of Aid for M'ea_s- ure Now Pending. s Leaders in Congress, aroused by re- Cleve- | Harding headquarters, movable and|Cent shooting escapades In this city, expressed the determination today to put through a strict bill prohibiting indiscriminate sale of firearms and | other dangerous weapons, and to en- {force strict regulations for those |carrying such dangerous weapons, in the next session of Congress. Representative Hill of New York, who has an anti-gun-toting bill pend- ing, said today that he has received assurances from members of the House District committee and from other prominent members in both branches of Congress that they will support his bill. Provides Strict Regulati Representative Hill's me: ure vides strict regulations covering the sale and use of firearms, and would invoke severe penalty. He is deter- mined to get action at the extra ses- pro- sion. 2 Representative Sumners of Texas, formerly prosecuting atforney for Dallas county and president of the County District Attorneys’' Associa- tion in Texas, said today that he will co-operate in an effort to prevent in- discriminate gale of “firearms and dangerous weapons and to keep them out of the hands of irresponsible peo- le. 1P When the crimes of theft, bur- glary and robbery are committed with the use of firearms or firearms are found on the persons of those perpe- trating these crimes, there ought to be within the power of the judge or jury to inflict the death penalty,” said_Representative Sumners. “This crime wave is due to many causes, but largely to the attitude of public sentiment, which manifests more sympathy for the criminal than for the individual or society which is a victim of the crime.” Many other members, both demo- cratic and republican, today ex- pressed their eagerness to co-operate in ridding the National Capital from the menace of gun-toting. : Senator Shields of Tennessee:today reiterated his intention of introducing again in the new Congress, soon. to assemble, his anti-gun-toting bill, designed’ to .prevent the indis- criminate sale of firearms. He sald that the shooting of Policeman Hay- den and several other persons yester- day by a negro was a tragic demon- stration of the need of such a law. s to Home < Within the .Hog.rjvv‘ rebuilding has put its fourth press in operation today in order that f nearly 100,000 copies i may be printed within the shortest possible This will insure subscribers having the’ latest news delivered t received promptly or delivered satisfactorily please notify the of- HUNDREDS OF LETTERS ARRIVE HERE FOR NEW | MEMBERS OF CABINET Hundreds of letters addressed to members of the Harding cabinet are being held at the Washington city post office until the new ycabinet members arrive in Washingt City Postmaster Chance plans to deliver such of the letters as he can 'to those in the new cabinet who tem- porarily take up residences at hotels, but will hold the remainder until the department heads are formally | installed. For the past week the letters to ‘ the cabinet members have been flooding into Washington from all parts of the United States, It is be- lieved that the greater paft of them are requests for positions in govern- ment service. The post_ office is somewhat em- barrassed by the plethora of letters to cabinet members who have as not Yet arrived in the city, but is “sitting tight” with the letters, or rather holding tight to them, until the mem- bers arrive. — AGTION OF HOUSTON HALTS LOAN PROBE Senator Reed Scores Refer- ence of Foreign Obligations to State Department. Senate judiciary committee investiga- i tion of foreign loans and credits met | With a“check today when Chairman Nel- ’ | court degrees dismissing son informed the committee that Secre- tary Houston had submitted Treasury files he had been ordered to produce to { compatible with public interest to pre- | sent beford the committee. URGES PROBATION { moned Mr. Houston to appear immedi- Censorship Hearing Opens |3, with the ul correspondence no ¢ ) ate.” . Before D. C. Commission- ' | action on Senator Reed's motion direct- erS'—Flght Promised' !ing Mr. Houston to appear tomorrow A proposal to put the motion picture | MOFRIng with copies of the complete cor- theaters of ‘the eity on probation for | Fespondence with ail the allied powers. three months before considering ¥he | The motion assefted that the committee creation of a board of censorship was | did “not regard the transmission of the made to the Commissioners at the Papers to the Secretary of State as a { public hearing at the District building compliance with the committee’s re- ithis afternoon® on the question of|duest. gy iaT et | “The Secretary of the Treasury,” Mr The proposal was submitted jointly | Reed declared, “has violated the man by Rev. Lucius C. Clark, representing idate of a Senate committee. He has the ~ Washington Federation of taken the matter out of our hands. Churches, and Charles A. McMahon of ; His whole attitude from the beginning. the National Catholic Welfare Council. | has been one of holding back.” The petition asks that during the! Previously Mr. Houston had fur- three months of probation the ex- nished the committee with the com- hibitors should be required to obsgrve plete filea In the case of Czechoslo- the rules of the Pennsylvania state.vakia and paft of the papers in the board of censorship. Dr. Cl-}:x and | Liberian--loans negotiations. Today's Mr. McMahon summed up their plan . investigation was to have begun the as‘follows: examination of correspondence in “If no honest attempt seems to be li made during this time we declare our- | og ocner aluen loaas o Lalian selves favorable to the creation of a board of review with the whole cost| Secretary Colby’s Letter Read. A letter from Secretary Housten of the same to be assessed to the motion picture exhibitors.” | agvising the committee that the pa- Boardroom Crowded. | pers had been submitted to Secretary & itg| Colby. was read by Chairman Nelson. o boardroom was crowded to its| i said that some of the papers deali he hearing to order At s omsei 0ot | with questions of important interna- ponents of censorship as well as ad- vocates of it were present in consid- erable numbers. There were indications at the out- | set that the hearing will be one of{ the most spirited staged at the Dis- trict building for some time. This is Action on Motion Deferred. The committee deferred until late today |upon by the State Department before { they were made public. This statement caused expression of anger from_Senators Reed and Shields. The former declared that he | was perfectly willing to go into ex- forecast by the fact that during the | €Cutive session for comsideration of o wi ; | any confidential document. He add- D retory of the paniel B. Garges 23 tat the Secretary considered the Sioners, has been swamped with jet. | committee inadequate to decide what ters and petitions voicing apymm?fi:gef should be protected or pub- i ed. . D SE e nsorhiD. was| Semator Cumming, republican, Iowa. learned today, will attend the hearing | 83ld it appeared that Secretary Hous- and speak on behalf of the motion |ton “had passed the buck to the State picture industry. It is likely that| Department. ghere also will be committees present e rom & number of the organizatiors that nave gong on record against cen- | JAPAN SUGGESTS GUAM sorship. Amonhg these organizations is the Central Labor Union. 1t is ex- | FOR U. S. CABLE STATION pected there also will be a representa. | S tive present of the District depart- = . ment of the American Legion. | By the Amsociated Press. . e R e e | TOKIO, February 26.—Japan will Dr. Clark opened the hearing on be-!insist upon its mandatory to the i half of the advocates of regulation of| 1and of Yap, according to authorit the movies and introduced the follow- ' tive Japanese opimion. The protest ing | speakers: Deets Pickett, re-|of the United States government to search secretary of the Methodist' the council of the league of nations board of public morals; William McK. | 7 Clayton, representing the Federation a8 a new move on a matter which has of Citizens’ Associations; Rev. Wilbur | already been lengthily, but thus far F. Crafts, superintendent of the in-| unsuccessfully, discussed directly by ternational reform bureau, and John|the governments of Japan and the Temple Graves. United States. The Pennsylvania rules, which it isy 1t is explained here that Japan proposed to have the local theaters; bases her mandatory on the final de- foliow during three months of proba-| cision .of the supreme council in May, tjon, would prevent the following: Pictures or parts of pictures dealing with “white slavery” and views of without mention of reservation. Japan will take the stand that the mandatory means control of the ca- | bles on the same status as Germany | prior_to the war. It is understood | that Japan has suggested to the Unit- {ed States to lay a cable direct to ing with the drug habit. S, ghai from Gu: Scenes showing the method ori?;’:?fie IYap route. AT htdhette operation of criminals, such as mur- | i —_— (Continued on Pag= 2, Column 2. v - = SEEKS FINAL DETAILS. L) > TOday 8 News To obtain the last minute details in Paragl‘aphsl""“'"'"‘ the plans for the inaugu- houses of ill-fame. Pictures dealing with the seduction of women. Trenatal and childbed | subtitles describing them. Pictures or parts of pictures deal- scenes or jration of President_clect Harding, lespecially as they refer to any par- Cangnul aroused to need of anti-gun- | ticipation by President Wilson, Secre- toting law. Page 1|tary Tumulty was to confer with the Rear Admiral Grayson ordered to com- |congressional joint inaugural commit- marnid naval dispensary here after six- (tee at the Capitol is afternoo: teen years at White House. Page 1 Republican leaders anxious to tackle big problems under new administration. | Proposal made to put movie theaters under three-month probation. ; Page 1 Secretary Houston's reference of rec- ords of foreign loans to State Depart- ment.is criticised by senators, Page 1 Harding unusually free from entangle- ments as White House duties ap. | Is Silent, Shy, BY DAVID LAWRENCE. While this is a week of farewells to Secretary Colby of the State Department | the advice as to those which it would be | i | COSTACRICA ARMY tional affairs and should be passed ! FARM LOAN ACT IS LEGAL, SUPREME ~ COURT DECIDES 5Millions Borrowed by Grow- ers Had Been Held Up | Awaiting Opinion. %%, {FEDERAL COURT DECREES i DISMISSING SUIT UPHELD Measure Attacked on Ground That Congress Could Not Exempt * Bonds From Tax. The federal farm loan act was held constitutional today by the Supreme Court. This is the act under which land banks were established to ex- tend loans to farmers. Millions of dollars in loans to farm- ers have been held up pending a de- cision of the court in this case, which was brought by Charles W. Smith. & stockholder in the Kansas City Title and Trust Company. who Sought am injunction to restrain that institu- tion from investing its funds in bonds | 1ssued by the farm loan banks. in sustaining federal injunction proceedings brought by Mr. Smith, {also held that Congress had the au- | thority to exempt the bonds of the bank from taxation Bond Exemption Attacked. The act was attacked on the ground that Congress was without constitu- The court. | tional authority ‘to establish farm loan banks,and to exempt their bonds from taxation. Justice Day, who rendered the opinion for the court. said the power of Congress 1o es- tablish 'banke had. in a broad sense, {said that unless the committee sum-jbeen upheld by ihe Supreme Court H 1in the days of Caief Justice Mar shall. The court divided 6 to 2. Justices Holmes and McReynolds dissenting. Justice Brandeis took no part in con- sidering the case.- Justices Holme# and McReynolds held that the “cause™ should have been dismissed by the court as being,solely within the scope of the Missouri courts. " House Waited for Decision, In anticipation of the decision of the court in this case, the House on Saturday postponed until tomorrow & Yote on a section of the sundry eivil bill authorizing the Treasury to pur- chase $200,000,000 worth of farm loan bonds. 3 The Supreme "Court's’ decigion wil' permit the banks to go ahead wit) the sale of their bonds on the marke and some congressional leaders dy not regard it as necessary to maks ::‘ell proposed $200,000,000 appropria- on. LAYS DOWN ARMS Threatened war betwcen Panama and Costa Rica was averted early to- day with the surrender of the Costa Rican army in Coto, according to word received here by J. E. Lefevre. charge d'affaires of the Panama lega- tion. ' Secretary Colby was in_prolonged conference at the State Department today with Charge Lefevre of the Panaman legation and Minister Alfaro, head of the Panaman terior department. but no announce- ment as to the purpose of the con- versation was made pending its:con- clusion. A 4arge map of Panama and adjacent territory, presumably show- ing the area in dispute between Pan- ama and Costa Rica. was taken ifta the conference ro - ol om_during the dis. QUIT ACTIVE SERVICE. Rear Admiral Henry T. Mayo. war- time commander-in-chief of the United States fleet, completed - his has aroused great interest in Japan, | proach. Page 1 A loving cup was presented to Vice *. President Marshall today by the mem- bers of the Senate. , Page 2 Greece refuses to agree to inquiry in Thrace and Smyrna. Page 2 Harding on way to Marion for farewell visit; inaugural address practically done. - Page 8 West Virginia executives -visit mining area where strike exists and report town “shot off the map.” Page 3 ‘Proposed Roosevelt coin, it is stated, will cause $50,000 l0ss to traction com- | panies.. Page 17| Dr. Henry Van Dyke pleads for revival of moral sense at national educational convention. Page 17 Discovery of properties in liquid de- | clared to be powerful solvent. Page 17 Forecast of inauguration day weather, | based on - past Averages, indicates Harding “will need heavy overcoat.” Page 17 S. destroyer sinks in collision with steamer off Panama. Page 17 Six_Irishmen are executed for war on crown forces. 2 Page 19 v | the outgoing administration, it is also a week of expectancy and curiosity as to the new regime. And while | most of the figures in the new cab- inet are known to the national cap- {ital the unknowns are Andrew W. | Mellon of Pittsburgh, Secretary of the Treasury; Henry C. Wallace of Des Moines, Jowa, Secretary of Agricul- ture; Kdwin Denby, Secretary of the Navy, and—assuming that James J. | Davis of Pennsylvania is to be Sec- retary of Labor——well, he, too, is un- vn_here. K he others — Herbert Hoover. Sen- ator Fall, former Senator Weeks, Wili Hays, Harry Daugherty and Charles svans Hughes—have all been identi- fied more or less with public affairs heretofore. Mellon's Characteristics. First and foremost of the new- comers gbout whom interest centers is the next Secretary of the Treasury. What mannes of man is he? All that has been so far told is that he is the second’ richest man in the t active service with the Navy today, after forty-nine vears' service. He was retired several months age, but- ued on duty as a member .of avy general board at the request of Secretary Daniels. He will remain in this ecity for a time. . Rear Admiral Charles J. Badger. formerly commander-in-chief of th Atlantic fleet and lately president wof the executive committee of the Navy 1919, which handed over the German |general boarl, also retired from. mp. |istands north of the equator to Japan |tive service today, at quest. his own -res FOR MORE WATER IND. C The Sutherland amendment to th$ Army appropriation bill, providing $200,000 to prepare plans and begin work on an increased water supply for the District of Columbia, was be- Ifore the conferees of the Senate an House on the Army bill when they met for the first time at 2 o'cloek this afternoon. Senator Sutherland of West Vir- ginia. who sponsored the amendment in the Senate, is a member of conference commiftee. He expressed the hope that the conferees on the part of the House would agree to the amendment, which is vitally needed in vie of the ter ‘supply situation i) Mellon, Coming Head of Treasury, Organizing Genius (United States, or at any rate in' ftie’ front rank of the wealthy. But the" truth is, Mr. Mellon’s genius in busi- ness has been all the more remark- able because he has accomplished . things without publicity or-ostents- tion—and the prediction is' made thas, he will probably be the most siieat man in the administration. o5 Mr. Mellon is a slender, diffident: man with gray hair, and a manner sg shy that it is almost shrinking. I it hardly tells you offhand that. he controls vast financial and indus-. trial interests. “A.- W." is what his, employes familiarly call him. 2 - His ability to organize is his 5 mount quality. He is able always 48, steer a -smooth, . middle-of-the-road course between the demands of radi-. calism and conservatism, and it is this faculty of diplomacy and skillful han. diing of the most intricate affairs of business which makes his friends so. absolutely confident that the gountry., has a real surprise in storé when the [next Secretary of the Treasury gets. into action. P, Inconapicunus Worker, . by To the people of is home dity." the name of A. W. Mellon-ytands- for twe' (Continued on Page 2, Column & deed.